Word: taking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other qualifying competitions, Harvard won its round of the New England Team Racing Championship elimination October 13. The Championships take place at M.I.T. this Saturday and Harvard is favored to win this meet as well, although Yale and Tufts will offer stiff competition. The top two finishers in the meet will gain a berth in the North American Championships...
...majority of students show by direct boycott or ballot that they find use of a product morally repugnant, then a boycott should take place. By denying students this right, the University does worse than take a morally neutral position; it prevents students from acting on their moral beliefs. Bok and the Corporation should flatly reject the Council's ethically empty policy...
...monetarists, those epigones of Milton Friedman who are among the only Americans with reason to rejoice over Volcker's moves, waffled. For the first time a financial official seemed to be taking their advice to heart; conservative monetarists have called for direct control of the money supply for years. But Friedman wrote a week after the program's announcement that the new Fed policy had to be fully carried through or it wouldn't work. In other words, if the policy reduces inflation then the monetarists will take credit, but if it doesn't they can say their ideas failed...
...political history in broad theatrical gestures, he never makes his case. Eventually the strain between form and content becomes irritating. The final shot is a portrait of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who is thus equated with the film's opening image of Hitler. No sale. If Fassbinder wants to take such dangerous stands, he will have to abandon his facile mannerisms and arm himself with the most powerful tools...
...cured of the condition. Back in Cairo, Ramses II went on display again, along with a plaque noting that in 1258 B.C. he and Hattusilis, great chief of the Hittites, ended a 20-year war with an agreement that neither would pass into the land of the other "or take anything therefrom." "Good, good," nodded Sadat, reading the plaque. Of course. It was a Middle East agreement 3,236 years older than his own Camp David concordat with Israel's Menachem Begin...